How much memory does a Ghost take up?

whswhs · 06-04-2023, 03:05 PM

When I was researching GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics, I found that in 2007, a Swiss research institute had simulated one cortical column of a rat brain on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. Human cortical columns are estimated to be six times as sophisticated as rat cortical columns, and a human brain has a million of them. That suggests that you might need 10^7 supercomputers to run a true ghost program. I might go with that as an estimate.

06-04-2023, 03:05 PM	#3
whswhs Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS	Re: How much memory does a Ghost take up? When I was researching GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics, I found that in 2007, a Swiss research institute had simulated one cortical column of a rat brain on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. Human cortical columns are estimated to be six times as sophisticated as rat cortical columns, and a human brain has a million of them. That suggests that you might need 10^7 supercomputers to run a true ghost program. I might go with that as an estimate. __________________ Bill Stoddard I don't think we're in Oz any more.